Counsels of Religion | Mostafa Al-Badawi, Imam Abdallah Al-Haddad, ?Abd All?h ibn ?Alaw? ?A???s
The Book of Counsels, The author's largest work, was declared by Imam al-Haddad to be "easy, clear, intelligible To The reader possessed of understanding, and sufficient". And that it contained the essence of the Ihya,' Ghazali's famous magnum opus. The contents of the book are in many ways similar to those of the Ihya', despite the fact that the latter is made of four large volumes. The book opens with a discourse on taqwa or God-fearing, leading up To The role of taqwa in attaining to a good ending to life, which means passing into the next life as a Muslim, thereby making certain of reaching paradise.